I am looking for a good spooling package. I have an issue where the code has
a hard coded printer call which was written in Cobol going to device class
LP. Their old LP is not my LP since the migration which is at a different
physical location. HP says there is no workaround for this by using
npconfig.

         What package(s) does anyone recommend? I have used Spoolmate in the
past. I wanted some feed back on this and what else is god/bad out there?

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter da Silva [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Browser as user interface for MPE


> I would represent Peter's comments as a non sequitir. In the IE browser,
if a
> file extension is to have any capability to do anything, that file
extension
> first must be registered in the Windows registry and associated with its
> appropriate application.

That is precisely the issue at hand. IE should not be using local file
type information (the windows desktop file bindings) for objects that
are received from a remote source. After all, the remote source may not
even be using Windows, and the file name... which is appropriate for that
server... may have nothing to do with any Windows file types.

This is why files called "readme.txt.exe" with a filetype of "audio/wav"
can be slipped through filters and infect computers with the Nimda virus. If
IE acted as Netscape does, the file would simply have been passed to the
audio player and come out as noise, or (more likely) not come out at all.

It's also why I've had a problem with "DOC" files, which are normally
plaintext files in traditional operating systems, opening up in "Word" when
I try to view them in IE. I can configure the server to do the right thing
for Netscape users, but for IE I have to come up with an ugly hack.

I'm surprised that this position should be even slightly controversial on
a list like this one. People who use traditional operating systems that have
reasonably solid security, and separation of responsibility between
subsystems, should be used to this kind of consideration.

And finally, it's certainly possible to configure Netscape to have a default
MIME type that does the right thing for your terminal session files. Look
under "HKCU\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\Suffixes". Doing things
differently than IE isn't necessarily *wrong*. And in this case it prevents
a whole slew of problems that Microsoft could have avoided if they weren't
so hot to integrate the browser and the desktop to violate the intent of the
original consent decree...

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